Neologisms in pdf

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--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, David Kiltz <derdron at ...> wrote:

> > curiosity: *faurweit > *fairweit (the attested word is 
`fairweitl',
> > a spectacle, something that causes curiosity).
> 
> What about _*niuniuths_ ? _Niuths_ is attested in PN _Niudis_.  
> _Niuths_ would mean 'desire, appetite, zeal'. Cf. OE _níod_, OS  
> _niud_, OHG _niot_. Thus the word would be modelled after German  
> _Neugier_. Cf. a similar notion in the Latin idiom "rerum novarum  
> cupidus".


Interesting ideas.  How early is Neugier attested in German?  I see 
in Grimm that some dialects have (or had) the first part of the 
compound as a genitive.  Maybe niuja-niuþs (cf. niuja-satiþs).  A 
couple more I thought of ages ago: kunþi-gairnei, witja-gairnei (or 
as genitives: kunþjis/witjis gairnei).  But my current favourite is 
*fairweit (I think it's in Köbler), because it has two closely 
related words attested in Gothic, fairweitl and fairweitjan, and 
because it matches OE fyrwit (cf. also OIc. forvitni).



> 
> > inflame: intandjan?  Attested, but metaphorically.  But the 
English
> > word can be literal or metaphorical too: inflamed throat, 
inflamed
> > passions.
> Just as German _entzünden/entzündet_ which is also etymologically  
> close to the Gothic.


Aha, maybe Fredrik's original suggestion is best after all!



> However, the simplex, _tandjan_ alone seems already to have that  
> meaning.


Twice as "light" a lamp.


> 
> -Frederik wrote:
> 
> > i think i once read in the gothic bible that a guy hade
> > cloths of camel hair, and then the word tagl was used.
> 
> The 'guy' is John the baptist. "Wasuththan Iohannes  gawasiths 
taglam  
> ulbandaus" ('with hair of camel') (Marc. I, 6)
> 
> David.



"Zaphod's just this guy, you know."






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